Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dennis the Menace has turned over a new leaf — for a week ! |
| 2 | COMIC Mike Harding saw how Middlesbrough has turned over a new leaf at the weekend . |
| 3 | An Italian entrepreneur has taken over a whole department store to sell western goods in Romanian currency . |
| 4 | Souness has taken over a club with financial difficulties . |
| 5 | The England skipper has taken over a club founded by one of his predecessors , Nigel Melville . |
| 6 | Appropriately enough for a photo session with one of the fittest men in the world — capable of dancing for hours without a break — we 'd taken over a corner of top London gym , The Peak , at the Hyatt Carlton Tower Hotel . |
| 7 | If we could have turned over a living trilobite we would have seen an array of jointed legs on the underside , and flexible antennae . |
| 8 | Go left over a low ridge and downhill . |
| 9 | Yet in each of those insolvent years they had turned over a good half million . |
| 10 | External Affairs Minister Madhavsinh Solanki resigned on March 31 after admitting that he had handed over a note to his Swiss counterpart , René Felber , requesting the Swiss government to slow down its investigations into pay-offs to high-ranking Indian officials allegedly deposited into Swiss bank accounts by the Swedish armaments company AB Bofors [ see pp. 35336 ; 35382 ] . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've taken over a local building firm which has unfortunately gone belly-up , ’ Vitor told her , ‘ and included among their assets is a plot of a sizeable number of acres which encompasses your property . ’ |
| 12 | The they 've taken over a place , only temporary but they 're ever so cheap in there ! |
| 13 | The third practice had overspent because it had taken over a smaller practice after the preparatory work on budget setting had been completed , and it had not been able to make an accurate estimate of prescribing costs for the 1300 patients involved . |
| 14 | The girls from the brothel had taken over a small back room . |
| 15 | Well again since the war and er probably since about the sixties , the garden centres have taken over a lot on that . |